The only boundary in its view is the boundary of ‘Faith’ and ‘blasphemy’.

The only boundary in its view is the boundary of ‘Faith’ and ‘blasphemy’. Thus, all of the human societies are divided into two groups: faithful and unfaithful. For introducing ‘Faith’, in many occurrences, the Qur’a-n has likened it to ‘light’, and ‘disbelief’ into ‘darkness’, and this is the most expressive simile of the Qur’a-n for introducing belief and disbelief.

(You may refer to Sura Al-Baqarah, verse 257, Sura Al-Ma-’idah, verses 15 and 16, Ibrahi-m, verses 1 and 5, Sura Az-Zumar, verse 22, Al-Hadi-d, verse 9, and At?-T?ala-q, verse 11) Faith is a kind of perceiving and inner insight. It is a sort of knowledge and cognizance combined with heartily conviction together with movement. It is a kind of belief which has penetrated into the depth of man’s soul and becomes the source of instructive activities.

But disbelief is ignorance, unawareness, and the lack of certainty, the result of which is the absence of feeling of responsibility and the existence of Satanic destructive actions. The second: Do the dead not perceive any reality? Regarding to what has been said in the abovementioned verses, there appear two questions: the first is that how does the Qur’a-n say: “… you cannot make those hear who are in the graves”?

or that a famous tradition indicates that on the day of the battle of Badr, the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) ordered that the dead bodies of the pagans would be cast into a well at the end of the war. Then he called them and said: “Have you found truth what Allah and His Messenger promised? But I found truth what Allah promised me.” Here ‘Umar protested and said: “O’ Messenger of Allah!

How do you speak with some bodies in which there is no soul?” The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) said: “You do not hear what I say better than that they do, except that they are not able to answer anything.” [^1] Or that one of the rites of a dead is that the right beliefs are indoctrinated him (her). How does this action adapt to the verses under discussion? With regard to one point, the answer to this question can be made clear.

This is a fact that the verses under discussion speak about the lack of understanding in the dead in ordinary natural case, while the tradition of the Battle of Badr is different from the indoctrination of a dead. It relates to some extraordinary conditions by which Allah (s.w.t.) transfers the sayings of His Messenger (p.b.u.h.) extraordinarily to the ears of those dead bodies.